An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

Even in a world of absolute equals, small strokes of luck can shape survival and evolutionary success in nature.

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of life back nearly 2 billion years, revealing slow changes during the ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

So it is with ecology: Evolution provides a canon by which we may better understand the interactions of organisms with their environments. In this section, we define evolution as it is understood ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we ... one of somewhere between 5 and 100 million distinct types of organisms living on Earth today. Incredibly, the story of how you are related ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Scientists discovered that choanoflagellates coordinate their movements through electrical signaling via voltage-gated calcium channels, offering key insights into the early evolution of ...